Breithauptite with Nickelskutterudite

specimen number:
2354280

location:
Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

description:
Metallic masses quite rich of breithauptite throughout matrix with nickelskutterudite.

The Cobalt mining camp in Ontario, Canada, is renowned for its rich hydrothermal vein deposits associated with a Proterozoic diabase sill intruding Huronian sediments, famously discovered in 1903 during railway construction and yielding massive silver and cobalt ores. Within these complex carbonate veins, collectors and miners occasionally encounter breithauptite, a rare nickel antimonide mineral characterized by its distinct pale coppery-red color and metallic luster. This historic district remains a classic mineralogical locality where rugged underground workings have produced exceptional specimens of native elements and associated metallic ores for over a century.

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